39 5.1 Shared Media (From Upnp Media Server) - Artsound R4 Mode D'emploi

• Artist and track name (default; where available)
• Description
• Genre and show country
• Reliability
• Bit rate and Codec and Sampling
• Playback buffer
• Today's Date
5 Music player mode (network)
Music player mode plays audio files such as MP3s,
AACs, WMAs or FLACs from a computer on the
local network.
To enter Music player mode, either press Mode
until the display shows Music player, or select
Menu > Main menu > Music player Once in music
player mode, press Menu , then select Shared
media.
Note: R4 does not support USB playback as
shown in the picture.
If you are already playing a music file, you can
press Back to quickly return to the last visited
branch of the menu tree. For example, suppose
you were listening to the track Heat by the artist 50
Cent through browsing shared media as described
in section 0 below. Pressing Back would return
you to the track listing for the album Get Rich or
Die Tryin'. Pressing Back again would list all 50
Cent albums. Pressing Back again would list all
album artists, and so on.
You can use << and >> to move through tracks.
Press and hold to rewind or fast forward and press
quickly to select previous or next track.
5.1 Shared media (from UPnP media server)
Select Menu > Shared media >
If you have set up shared media (as described on
page 31), you should see an entry consisting of
<computer name>: <Shared media name>, for
example JB-Laptop: Audio. If you have more than
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one computer sharing media, the alternatives are
listed. Select the shared media you want to play.
From this point on, the menus are generated from
the shared media server (typically Windows Media
Player).
The first menu shows a list of media types, for
example Music, Video, Pictures and Playlists. R4
can only play music and playlists.
There is also a search function, which finds tracks
in a similar way to Internet radio search, as de-
scribed on page 390.
From Music, there are numerous ways of selecting
tracks, including:
• Genre
• Artist
• Album
• Composer
• Rating
Once you have found a track you want to play,
press Select. A short press plays the track
immediately and a long press adds the track to
the playlist. You can also add entire albums to the
playlist.
R4 plays either the selected track or the playlist.
5.1.1 Wake-on-LAN
If shared media is selected a list of available music
servers will be displayed.
If a question mark appears before the server
name, this indicates that the server has been seen
before and supports Wake-on-LAN functionality,
but cannot currently be found on the network.
If a server with a question mark is selected by the